NORR Reviews

Bad management and disorganization Constantly understaffed No mentoring nor opportunity for growth Cannot really rise nor be promoted within company Pigeonholed into a position (cannot be promoted from a Designer to anything but Project Manager) Pigeonholed on projects (if you're a member of the Starbucks team you will only work on Starbucks projects) No outreach with the architecture community, no activities or office events No resources for ARE Exam / No encourgement to become licensed Many disgruntled and overworked employees Members of the Starbucks team often have to work 50/60 hour weeks and come in on weekends Constantly in the office late at night to finish deadlines No break in between project deadlines (you will be working on a project set by yourself, when one project deadline is done, you move to the next project deadline) Large employee overturn Very few stay at company for over 2 years No laptops given out to designers, no opportunity to VPN Awful Coffee

All cons are on the upper management side, so keep your distance: • Always understaffed and overtime seems to be always the answer when extra help is needed. The four “executives” on the corner are more concerned about their profits, so proposals are more focused on dollars rather than on productivity, quality and understanding the complexity of a project. • All workplaces are political to some extent, but NORR Toronto is the winner. Hard to advance and the few promotions seems to be for the “good suckers” and not for the “good employees”. • Very old school design approach. Zero investment in new technologies and research, no laser-cutter and the only 3d printer available is just collecting dust. • Be aware, one mistake is all it takes to be bullied or laid-off. Some people will take it on you personally and make your life miserable.